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OMG I got home 1:00 this morning from the Honor flight to DC. Our plane landed here about 11:30 last night. It was amazing and some of it was almost indescribable. I even had a Supermodel companion assigned to me who was really nice. I couldn't be happier but I will get back to this as we are...

I am going to Washington DC tomorrow. Hopefully, the cherry blossoms will still be in bloom. The "Honor Flight" people are taking me and about 100 other Veterans there for an Honor ceremony. Some of my friends are staying with my wife to help her as I won't leave her alone for a day...

WE have to get away from this idea that dirt is bad for fish. We Humans evolved to eat a lot of dirt in our lives, most Neanderthals didn't have that little push thing next to their Delta sink faucet filled with that nice smelling baby blue Anti- Bacterial soap with the Supermodel or Clownfish...

My Daughter passed the Bar so now she can sue me and I have to call her Counselor or esquire.

Good Morning. Today it almost 80 degrees which I think is a record. But it will get colder and rain tomorrow. :confounded-face: I took a picture of the mist over a pond right near my house on my morning walk.

I took my Daughter and Grand Son freshwater fishing. There isn't many places for fresh water fishing here as we are surrounded by salt water but I found one. My Daughter caught this bluegill. Some millennials came by and the girl asked if we caught anything. I said Yes, we caught a barracuda...

I also hve been to nicer aquariums but the one at Coney Island is by far the oldest. It used to be in the Battery in lower Manhattan but when WW2 happened it closed as all the men went to war, it was re opened on the boardwalk in Coney Island and is still touted as the oldest public aquarium on...

So do I. :)

It was. I was born right near there on Bay 13th street which is really Bensonhurst. I remember Coney Island when it was really cool. We used to go there as kids to see all the freak shows. Then the Govt thought it was wrong for those people to be exhibited so they closed those shows putting...

My Daughter bought me this painting from the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. It's from Coney Island and says Pauls Daughter. Actually there is a place on the Coney Island boardwalk named Pauls Daughter and this is a realistic painting of the place. I was born near there.

Antibiotics are probably the worst thing we could add to a fish tank unless we have one sick fish and it is in a hospital tank. Even at that, unless I was sure the fish was going to die, I would not use an antibiotic because as I said our tanks run on bacteria and if we kill the bacteria, we...

I'm trying to get back to this but my wife needs some extra care today as she is not doing to good right now.

As I was mesmerized looking at my reef I decided to peruse the net. I googled my name to look for an article I wrote years ago, but I couldn't find it. Instead I found one of my homes while in Viet Nam. I was on 14 of these Firebases. This one was called Fire Support Base Illingworth and I don't...

Quote: “Gut microbiota can affect fish physiology, development, life span, immunity, and barriers against pathogens (Burns et al., 2016; Nie et al., 2017; Smith et al., 2017; Yan et al., 2016). Therefore, the gut microbiota plays an indispensable role in fish fitness. Several recent reviews...

Diana, I can always count on you to read my scribblings. :D

To me a tank does not start to achieve stability until you see growth on the rocks. No, we don't want it covering our corals but some growth is normal and natural. If your rock is still bare rock, don't put in anything that you don't want to lose and especially creatures that live on copepods...

I just got back from my morning walk, Thank God summer is coming. Anyway getting back to the tank. We discussed how to aquascape to keep the fish as stressful as we can. This is another home made rock. It is bent PVC pipe with a cement covering. This is a coral reef in Bora Bora. I took...

Now we can discuss how to set up a tank to be immune. As I said in the beginning, if you don't believe fish can become immune, go out for a walk, maybe jog a little and get some fresh air. But since my fish seem to be 100% immune from communicable diseases I will my discuss my method. This...

We are almost there. Now we are talking about gut bacteria. Something almost always overlooked as Lateral lines it is almost never posted about but it is gut bacteria, good and bad that controls our immunity (Along with fish) and is probably the reason when we medicate fish with almost...

I will get to setting up the tank eventually but I think first we need to know about the immune system of fish. Our skin is composed of dead cells on the outside to make us water proof, to an extent. A fishes skin is living all the way through and is semi porous "almost" like our reverse...